Image scanned and/or photographed, then color-corrected by Pat Cagney.

Carved Vase with Eagle Handles

CultureHonduras | Maya | Pre-Columbian

Date800-1000

MediumAlabaster | Marble

DimensionsOverall: 3 15/16 x 4 3/4 in. (10 x 12.1 cm)

Credit LineGift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.

Object number78.518

Collections

Ancient American Art

On View

Chrysler Museum of Art, Gallery 105

DescriptionCarved vase with eagle handles. White marble; decorated with Tajin-like scroll design; Maya-like eagle handles. Only one of its kind known with 2 handles extended above body of vase.

Exhibition History"On the Edge of the Maya World: Stone Vases from the Ulua Valley, Honduras," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX, February 23 - May 31, 1992. Published ReferencesFrederick J. Dockstader, with photography by Carmelo Guadagno, _Indian Art In Middle America_ (Greenwich, Conn.: New York Graphic Society, 1964), no. 136. Christina Marie Luke, _Ulua Style Marble Vases: Dissertation for a Ph.D. Degree in Anthropology_ (New York: Cornell University, May 2002), 326.